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    • Games of Threats 

      Kohlberg, Elon; Neyman, Abraham (Elsevier BV, 2018-03)
      A game of threats on a finite set of players, N, is a function d that assigns a real number to any coalition, S ⊆ N, such that d(S) = -d(N\S). A game of threats is not necessarily a coalitional game as it may fail to satisfy ...
    • Gender Differences in COVID-19 Attitudes and Behavior: Panel Evidence from Eight Countries 

      Galasso, Vincenzo; Pons, Vincent; Profeta, Paola; Becher, Michael; Brouard, Sylvain; Foucault, Martial (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020-10-15)
      The initial public health response to the breakout of COVID-19 required fundamental changes in individual behavior, such as isolation at home or wearing masks. The effectiveness of these policies hinges on generalized ...
    • Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game 

      Bowles, Hannah Riley; McGinn, Kathleen (Wiley, 2008-10)
      We propose taking a two-level-game (Putnam 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level One, candidates negotiate with the employers. At Level Two, candidates negotiate with household members. In order to ...
    • Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

      Cui, Ruomeng; Ding, Hao; Zhu, Feng (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2022-03)
      Problem definition: We study the disproportionate impact of the lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak on female and male academic research productivity in social science. Academic/practical relevance: The lockdown ...
    • Gendered Races: Implications for Interracial Marriage, Leadership Selection, and Athletic Participation 

      Galinsky, Adam D.; Hall, Erika V.; Cuddy, Amy J. C. (2012-11-09)
      Six studies explored the overlap between racial and gender stereotypes and the consequences of this overlap for interracial dating, leadership selection, and athletic participation. Two initial studies, utilizing explicit ...
    • Germany’s Digital Health Reforms in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons and Opportunities for Other Countries 

      Gerke, Sara; Stern, Ariel; Minssen, Timo (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-07-10)
      Reimbursement is a key challenge for many new digital health solutions, whose importance and value have been highlighted and expanded by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Germany’s new Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale–Verso ...
    • Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness 

      Rudd, Melanie; Aaker, Jennifer; Norton, Michael Irwin (Elsevier, 2014-07-18)
      Across six field and laboratory experiments, participants assigned a more concretely-framed prosocial goal (e.g., making someone smile or increasing recycling) felt happier and reported creating greater personal happiness ...
    • Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration 

      Tabellini, Marco Emanuele (2018-08-01)
      In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring significant economic prosperity to receiving areas. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to US cities ...
    • The Gifts We Keep on Giving: Documenting and Destigmatizing the Regifting Taboo 

      Adams, Gabrielle S.; Flynn, Francis J.; Norton, Michael Irwin (Sage, 2012)
      Five studies investigate whether the practice of "regifting"-a social taboo-is as offensive to givers as regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting thought that the original givers would be more offended than ...
    • GitLab: Work Where You Want, When You Want 

      Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Crowston, Kevin; Dahlander, Linus; Minervini, Marco S.; Raghuram, Sumita (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-11-16)
      GitLab is a software company that works “all remote” at the scale of more than 1000 employees located in more than 60 countries. GitLab has no physical office and its employees can work from anywhere they choose. Any step ...
    • Give What You Get: Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-Year-Old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics 

      Leimgruber, Kristin L.; Ward, Adrian F.; Widness, Jane; Norton, Michael I.; Olson, Kristina R.; Gray, Kurt; Santos, Laurie R. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      The breadth of human generosity is unparalleled in the natural world, and much research has explored the mechanisms underlying and motivating human prosocial behavior. Recent work has focused on the spread of prosocial ...
    • The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms 

      Alfaro, Laura; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang (Elsevier, 2014)
      The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What ...
    • Global, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment 

      Baker, Malcolm P.; Wurgler, Jeffrey; Yuan, Yu (Elsevier, 2015-06-16)
      We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock markets and decompose them into one global and six local indices. In a validation test, we find that relative sentiment is correlated with the relative prices of ...
    • The Globalization of Angel Investments: Evidence across Countries 

      Lerner, Joshua; Schoar, Antoinette; Sokolinski, Stanislav; Wilson, Karen (2016-01-06)
      This paper examines investments made by 13 angel groups across 21 countries. We compare applicants just above and below the funding cut-off and find that these angel investors have a positive impact on the growth, performance, ...
    • Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders 

      Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Cohen, Alma; Wang, Changyi Chang-Yi (2014)
      Golden parachutes (GPs) have attracted substantial attention from investors and public officials for more than two decades. We find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association ...
    • Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing? 

      Fisman, Ray; Khurana, Rakesh; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew; Yim, Soojin (INFORMS, 2014)
      We study how corporate governance affects firm value through the decision of whether to fire or retain the CEO. We present a model in which weak governance—which prevents shareholders from controlling the board—protects ...
    • Governance through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior in Japan 

      Chattopadhyay, Akash; Shaffer, Matthew D.; Wang, Changyi Chang-Yi (2017-09-08)
      We study how a stock index can affect corporate behavior by serving as a source of prestige. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 index was introduced in 2014. The index selected 400 ...
    • Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals 

      Di Tella, Rafael M.; Franceschelli, Ignacio (American Economic Association, 2011)
      We construct measures of the extent to which the four main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption in their front page during the period 1998-2007 and correlate them with government advertising. The correlation ...
    • Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California 

      Simcoe, Timothy; Toffel, Michael Wayne (Elsevier, 2014)
      We study how government green procurement policies influence private-sector demand for similar products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on ...
    • Government Preferences and SEC Enforcement 

      Heese, Jonas (2015-01-09)
      I examine whether political influence by the government as a response to voters’ interest in employment conditions is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large ...